The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has published a notice regarding a petition from the California Fire Pilots Association. The petition seeks an exemption from certain logging requirements of flight time under the Federal Aviation Regulations. Specifically, the California Fire Pilots Association wants their pilots to be able to log flight time while flying firefighting aircraft, which is not currently allowed under existing regulations unless the flights are related to law enforcement operations. The petition also requests that this exemption last until changes are made to the regulations as outlined in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
Simple Explanation
The California Fire Pilots want special permission from the FAA to count their flying time in firefighting planes like they do for police planes, because the current rules don't allow it, and they hope this will change the rules in the future.